[ SECRET POST #2896 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2896 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[were_lemur]

I'm definitely in the minority opinion here, but a lot of time I really wish for better hate in the tags.

Like, when it's the same argument reblogged for the eighty-fifth time, maybe with a line added to the bottom that says "I agree totally," it gets really old. This is something that gets your blood boiling, so you should use that and tell me why.

(I mean, I do that too, and I guess if everybody who hates something reblogs it once, it can keep showing up in a tag until it gets boring and repetitive. And I'm starting to have thoughts about maybe Tumblr is turning me, personally, into a lazier fan than I was before I could just hit the reblog button?)

I kind of disagree with you, though, about fans missing out if they don't want to see anything but squee. Some people really don't like conflict, some people want fandom to be their happy worry-free space, some people are used to having their fandoms mocked irl and I can see how it would really suck to have people come into that space to critique the things that they love.

But what I have trouble with is the notion that we should be organizing fandom to cater exclusively and primarily to that kind of experience, at the expense of having an open exchange of ideas. Having tags and communities that are designated "squeeing spaces" would be one way, tagging critique with both the main tag and a tag that lists the content as critique so that they could filter it out in Tumblr savior would be another, putting meta and especially graphics behind a "Read More" if they are going on the main tag ... there are plenty of ways to allow both fans who want to engage critically, and those who just want to hang out in their fannish happy place, to co-exist.

[(Anonymous)]

Your last paragraph. The problem is getting Tumblr to agree to use this tag for this and that tag for that, especially when there are people who will get upset that you're using a particular string of words for your stuff. "That's a really cool tag. Why do you get to use it? I wanted to use that for something ironic! Give it back! omg!oppression!"

Getting Tumblr to agree on anything is like herding cats. And the batshit cats are all mixed in with the regular cats.

Sorry. Tumblr just makes me sadly shake my head these days. God, I can't wait for Tumblr to decline and fandom to migrate to a better site.